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Anyway, the fact is the following:
What does the class "C" represent in terms of pressure?
What's the pressure?
Will the pressure increase? Will it decrease? What will happen?
Are we a very mobile people?
Is it a matter of convincing people to stop being annoying,
to stay at home or something like that?
Or are we not so mobile as a people,
thus having a lot ahead of us?
Well, we are not very mobile as a people.
Meaning, we have much more ahead of us concerning growth of demand
than we do concerning the prospects of people slowing down.
The fire will not be put out by itself, the fire will grow bigger!
Mobility is the average number of journeys that, each person makes per day.
But there's another indicator that few people talk about, which is that of immobility.
People who don't ride... Who do nothing. People who don't leave home.
People who don't leave home... I mean, they go for a walk around the corner, eventually.
But they don't go to a specific place. People who have no destination, no journey.
Not even by foot, which is our biggest journey. Our biggest journey is by foot.
About the pressure: as the income lowers and the age increases,
the immobility index can reach the 80%.
To win or to lose this battle will depend on the bus. Our Waterloo will be the bus.
The rail track fictions of trains and subways are important infrastructures
that one day we will gradually be conquering.
But the reason why we are in the chaos we're in,
is because people don't take the bus.
And many have ample reasons not to take the bus.
We must put more effort and focus on the bus.
That's why such measures as exclusive bus lanes are absolutely brilliant. Brilliant!
The LRT [Ligh Rail Transit] is a solution mainly for the rich.
Meaning, those cities which are already established, which won't change much more,
that solved almost all their problems and lack new problems to solve,
those cities build a LRT because that's better than having the people buying a car,
which costs even more money.
In Europe this is very common. I asked in several cities:
"Is that an economical solution?" They answered: "No, but neither is the car!"
It's a fight against the car. But they have the money.
Or, a Brazilian project: the project in Rio de Janeiro,
where a LRT is being built not as an economical solution,
but rather as a solution to revitalize the harbor area and the city center.
It's not a transportation project.
It's an urban renewal project.
And that makes sense!
If there's not an immediate improvement of the urban transportation,
which can only be done immediately and quickly by a quality bus service,
those people will leave public transportation, those who still remain in it,
and turn toward the automobile as soon as their income increases.
It's the class "C" showing up.
And the class "C" is mainly in the metropolitan area,
not only in the urban area. They're in the metropolitan area.
Therefore, the main priority of the rail tracks
is not to make a dense Paris-like network within São Paulo,
the priority is to go the furthest and the quickest possible
in order to articulate the several periphery nuclei
which is what the traffic in São Paulo has as its biggest threat.
The biggest threat to São Paulo is not the one living in São Paulo, because he already has a car.
The only thing he can do is to get a second one.
But still, he can only take one at a time.